Journal of Economic Perspectives
ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)
Fallibility in Human Organizations and Political Systems
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 5,
no. 2, Spring 1991
(pp. 67–88)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
This paper presents a perspective on some organizational consequences of human fallibility. It may be easier to get a flavor of the relevant issues by examining the role of fallibility in specific settings, rather than through abstract arguments. So, in the next three sections, I consider several different settings: the question of diversification versus concentration of political authority, the managerial succession process in organizations, and the choice of ideas and projects (including innovation-oriented projects) in organizations. In the last section, I highlight some aspects of the approach underlying the analyses of human fallibility, in particular: the premises concerning an individual decisionmaker, the potential association between the motivation of an organization's employees and their fallibility, and the nature and the aims of the analysis of organizations.Citation
Sah, Raaj Kumar. 1991. "Fallibility in Human Organizations and Political Systems." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (2): 67–88. DOI: 10.1257/jep.5.2.67JEL Classification
- D20 Production and Organizations: General
- A12 Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
There are no comments for this article.
Login to Comment